MERCER ISLAND, WA — (Marketwired) — 11/18/14 — Justin Kan and Emmett Shear, founders of Twitch, Tikhon Bernstam, the founder of Scribd and Parse, Sean Byrnes, the founder of Flurry, and Steve Huffman, co-founder of Reddit and Hipmunk, have invested over $1 million in , the only email app that is designed for how people communicate on mobile devices. WeMail provides instant email delivery, offers a clean inbox organized into conversations by email sender, and enables hands-free email via WeMail Voice.
WeMail is the only email app that allows users to send and reply to any email in their own voice. WeMail automatically organizes email by sender, providing a chat-like experience based on the way people naturally communicate. This people-focused approach instantly cuts the size of any inbox by over 64% on average and means any email or attachment — even in the largest inboxes — can be found in seconds. WeMail is founded by brothers Phil and Gerald Yuen, Y Combinator alumnus. Over the last several years they–ve sold two successful startups to Amazon and Zynga. Additional WeMail investors include Amazon and Zynga executives.
Because email is the last original desktop app remaining on smartphones, it–s slow and cumbersome. Searching for a word or phrase within an email or for attachments such as documents, photos and self-notes in existing email apps is time-consuming and frustrating. Many email providers simply replicate the desktop experience on mobile, not allowing for the differences in mobile behavior and platforms. They also impose new behavior that users have to learn and adhere to.
– For the first time, WeMail gives email a voice. Based on patent-pending technology users can send and reply to any email with a personal Voice note up to 20 seconds long. Users can record and send a Voice Note with just one tap. Fellow WeMail app recipients will see the Voice Note instantly in their email stream and can press play to listen to the message with one click. If they don–t have the WeMail app, it will be sent as an audio attachment which they can play through their media player. No other email app lets you record and send messages immediately via email in your own voice.
– Emails to fellow WeMail app users are sent and appear at the speed of IM. There–s no need to wait for delivery or to refresh the inbox. Emails appear in conversation streams as soon as the –Send– button is pushed. And like IM, recipients can see when someone is in the process of writing a message or uploading an attachment. This feature can also be turned off.
– WeMail organizes emails by sender instantly reducing the size of any inbox by more than 64% on average. Email is now organized in a way that makes it easy to navigate and find conversations. With WeMail, email streams are transformed into a clean text message-like format rather than dense, long and convoluted threads.
– WeMail provides one-tap access to all attachments by sender. To find any document, PDF, photo, etc. that was sent or received, users click on a name and then click the attachments button to see all attachments sent between the user and that sender.
– WeMail offers advanced search capability within the app. Simply enter a keyword and WeMail shows any word or phrase in the context of the information around it. This makes it easier and faster to find anything in your inbox.
– Because WeMail organizes email by contacts and offers Voice Notes and Instant Email, finding and sending email becomes much faster. When compared to Gmail, Mailbox, Outlook, AOL and Yahoo! Mail, WeMail takes 80% fewer screen scrolls and 33% fewer taps to get to an email; and gives you one-tap access to your attachments.
“Email is the one common way people around the world stay connected and organized,” said Phil Yuen, co-founder and CEO of WeMail. “But tired, old email programs don–t reflect the way we want to use our mobile devices to communicate and get organized. WeMail flipped the model by putting people first and transforming email into the ultimate mobile experience.”
Research shows that mail is the most important communication vehicle on mobile and on the desktop. It–s the most preferred communication for 74% of adults. Over are sent per minute — than Whatsapp messages and 600x more than Tweets/minute.
“I knew WeMail would change the way we used email on mobile the minute I saw it,” said Tikhon Bernstam, Scribd, Parse founder. “I would have paid $50k on Kickstarter just to have WeMail with no equity at all because it–s literally a life changer.”
WeMail for Android is free and . Coming soon to iOS.
WeMail, Inc. was founded in 2013 by Philip and Gerald Yuen, both Y Combinator Founder Alumnus. WeMail is the first email app that provides IM-like voice capability. WeMail instantly transforms your existing email into conversations organized by sender, similar to messaging and chat. This –people first– approach makes WeMail the first mobile email app designed from the ground up for the way you naturally communicate on mobile. Organizing by sender means you can find any email, self-note or attachment within seconds. And grouping emails by contacts automatically compresses your inbox by more than half. Justin Kan and Emmett Shear, the founders of Twitch, Tikhon Bernstam, the founder of Scribd and Parse, Sean Byrnes, the founder of Flurry, and Steve Huffman, co-founder of Reddit and Hipmunk, have invested over $1 million in . Get WeMail for your Android device today from the .
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